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A scientific odyssey: unravelling the secrets of the thymus
Author(s) -
Miller Jacques FA
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2005.tb00041.x
Subject(s) - miller , citation , library science , art history , art , computer science , biology , ecology
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, VIC. Jacques FA Miller, AC, AO, MD(Hon), PhD, DSc, Professor Emeritus. Reprints: Professor Jacques FA Miller, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, 1G Royal Parade, Parkville, VIC 3050. miller@wehi.edu.au The Medical Journal of Australia ISSN: 0025729X 5/19 December 2005 183 11/12 582-584 ©The Medical Journal of Australia 2005 www.mja.com.au Power of one ogy and medicine for their contributions to immunolo Gowans (who was Professor of Experimental Patholo Both were responsible for elucidating the phenomeno logical tolerance and the function of recirculatin phocytes. Their expositions helped me greatly in m work on the immune system. y e an so M arly research career has benefited greatly from chance d the right environment. It was not my intention to lve major problems in my postgraduate studies. I was simply interested in the possibility that a virus, discovered by Ludwik Gross in the United States, was involved in the pathogenesis of mouse leukaemia. Although I had no plans to work on immunological problems, I was very much influenced by lectures given by two giants in medical research — Peter Medawar (who, along with Macfarlane Burnet, was awarded the 1960 Nobel Prize for physiolgy) and James gy at Oxford). n of immunog small lymy subsequent